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Masculine‑feminine fantasies: The phantasmagorias of Hans Bellmer [PDF]

The Polish Journal of Aesthetics, 2015
In 2013, the publishing house Word/Image Territory [Słowo/ obraz terytoria] reissued the book Bellmer, or The Anatomy of Physical Unconsciousness and Love. On one of its final pages is Hans Bellmer’s dedication, addressed to a sur‑realist painter.
Agnieszka Kot
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Digital scenography and the mimetic aporia of Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle

Journal of Aesthetics & Culture, 2015
This article explores the visual friction between the concealment of technology and the need to stage mimetic scenes in Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen. The article relies on the critical reception of the Wagnerian Gesamtkunstwerk in musicology,
Jason R. D’Aoust
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Testing the Flâneur Image in Roberto Bolaño’s Exile Writings: A Study of the Theory through the Example of B in “Vagabond in France and Belgium” [PDF]

SHS Web of Conferences, 2023
Flâneur, in Walter Benjamin’s essays on the Second Empire of France, refers to the image of a wandering intellectual or petty bourgeoisie who indulges himself in the modern phantasmagoria on the streets of Paris.
Lin Jingjing
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Through “muddy grid”: psychoanalytic transfer as an artistic representa-tion of multicultural paradigm in Lars von Trier’s film “Forbrydelsens element”

Неофилология, 2019
We explore the psychoanalytic transfer used by Danish director Lars von Trier in his debut film “Forbrydelsens element” (1984). We consider the stages of therapeutic sleep, its composition and structure.
V. V. Kolchanov
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Dismembered Bodies, Dismembered Texts: Supernatural Anthologies and the Re-animation of the Dead in Post-revolutionary France (1802-1822)

Enthymema, 2019
The import of British Gothic novels in post-revolutionary France, from 1797 onwards, triggered French publisher to capitalize on the vogue of supernatural narratives.
Fabio A. Camilletti
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Ronnie James Dio

Hyperrhiz, 2021
Although Ronnie James Dio is often parodied for his lyrical ruminations on dragons, demons, and other Dungeons and Dragons style phantasmagoria, he maintained a humor about himself and possessed a capacity for openness unique to heavy metal.
Geoffrey V. Carter
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Cinematographic Simulacra [PDF]

In Medias Res, 2017
Reality provokes and inspires us to create new worlds. Parallel universes are designed by our imaginative potential. This paper aims to show how film proves to be a perfect medium to support the spectacle of entertainment and visual imagination by ...
Jelena M. Stepanov
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Selling Shock at the Sans Pareil: The Early Shows of Jane and John Scott [PDF]

Litteraria Pragensia
In November 1806, the Sans Pareil theatre, later renamed the Adelphi, staged its first evening of entertainment. This consisted of a performance by Jane Scott of her own songs, followed by a series of optical entertainments devised by her father John ...
Henry James Mason
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A Reserve of Light: Photography, Ethnography, and Lucid Memory in Contemporary Chile

The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 31, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT This article takes shape as a shared inquiry between an ethnographer and a photographer, in continuity with the photographic archive of Luis Poirot. Through sustained encounters with his images and archival practices, the text does not position itself outside the archive that motivates it, but unfolds from within it.
Cristóbal Bonelli, Luis Poirot
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Ghost in the Machine: Daily Interaction with Ephemeral Computing

Cinergie
The aim of this paper is to examine the phenomenon of the progressive spectralisation of the physical world, which involves a growing habit of contactless interaction. Indeed, the computerisation of domestic and social environments is almost complete. To
Sofia Pirandello
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